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Flash Flood — Grant, AR

Jun 8, 2020

To the south, Tropical Storm Cristobal ventured from the Yucatan Peninsula on the 5th to the Louisiana coast on the 7th. The system made landfall between the mouth of the Mississippi River and Grand Isle, LA at 410 pm CST on the 7th with maximum sustained winds around 50 mph. The remnants of Cristobal continued northward into Arkansas on the 8th, and brought widespread downpours and northeast winds gusting from 30 to 40 mph in places.||Overall, this did not turn into a huge event (impacts were m

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 894381). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

Flood Risk Context for Grant, AR

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